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Lot Essay
The Menin Road - famously portrayed as an area of devastated chaos by renowned artist Paul Nash, with no road at all visible - comprised the key road east out of Ypres.
Considered one of the 'hottest' spots of the Western Front, and certainly in the Ypres Salient, the Menin Road was the scene of frequent artillery fire directed by German forces against the predominantly British presence in the Salient, most notably during the First and Third Battles of Ypres (1914 and 1917 respectively).
Considered one of the 'hottest' spots of the Western Front, and certainly in the Ypres Salient, the Menin Road was the scene of frequent artillery fire directed by German forces against the predominantly British presence in the Salient, most notably during the First and Third Battles of Ypres (1914 and 1917 respectively).